In response to SmokeWeed's post(s)...
SmokeWeed said:
I think our media/government puts too much emphasis on pointless shit such as the above. Instead of protesting for better labels on soft drinks and wasting AUD $189 million on pornography filters we should be addressing other, more important issues.
Such as what? What's more important then stopping young kids having access to porno? The way I see it filters are good - seems to me they're deliberately loose, allowing those who really want to access porno to cirumvent them, but stopping those who don't know how (read: young children) not to access them.
I do agree, however, the media does place too much emphasis on pointless shit - but then, if they didn't, the paper would be full of deaths and heartaches :S
SmokeWeed said:
Marijuana is regarded as bad by individuals such as yourself because it is a banned substance. Smoking cannabis is less harmful than alcohol.
Marijuana doesn't damage your liver or kill brain cells, alcohol does both. The effects of alcohol are also more serious than marijuana and a drunk person is a much bigger concern that a stoned one.
You seem to have ignored the side effects of marijuana, such as mental illness (eg schizophrenia) and physcosis. I'm not going to argue which is more harmful - I dont have the knowledge - but it would seem to me that these are more severe then anything alcohol can do to you. I don't think you can make an assertion that alcohol is more serious then marijuana based off just an analysis of alcohol alone...
SmokeWeed said:
Maybe you should stop following the legal bandwagon and use your brain to form your own opinions. Just by reading your post I've established what kind of person you are.
You don't go out much.
You don't have many friends and the few that you do have are like minded.
You are societies slave.
I've experienced more things in my short life than you will in a lifetime. You can thank your secluded lifestyle and ignorance for this.
Ad hominem. How the hell do you know anything about his/her life, based off one post? You don't, so you shouldn't claim to. This has NOTHING to do with what you're saying , so why bother including it? If anything, it shows you're intolerance of people who don't agree with you...